Posted on 05/03/2011 1:06:01 PM PDT by traumer
President 'slept on it' as tense military chiefs awaited decision Action started the next morning when Obama declared 'it's a go' Mission delayed by one day after heavy cloud cover on Saturday night Navy seals dodged Pakistani security to reach Bin Laden's lair Outpouring of emotion on streets down to 'the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11' Obama told members of Congress
Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound.
Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound. The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.
But the president stunned officials when he told a national security meeting that he wanted more time to think - and disappeared out of the room. 'I'm not going to tell you what my decision is now - I'm going to go back and think about it some more,' said Obama, according to the New York Times. He then added 'I'm going to make a decision soon.' The head of the CIA and other senior intelligence officers who were keen to proceed were left tense as they waited for the president's decision. But the next morning after 16 hours, Obama summoned four top aides to the White House Diplomatic Room. Before they could speak, the president put his fist on the table and declared 'It's a go'.
With those three words, the greatest military operation in recent history began. Had it not been for heavy cloud cover
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
obama “hesitated” with the Seal 6 team and the somalis. Same crap here with bin laden.
This should reduce his “bump”. This guy is no leader - a girl scout leader is more decisive than he is.
YEAHHH!!!!!!
Typical Dim pResident, he needs to see which way the wind is blowing before taking a position, like Bubba.
Bfl.
Good one, Joe.
>>Obama notwithstanding, but if any of this from Uman is true, Clinton, Panetta, and Daley should be arrested, as well as any compliant JCS member or staff. We cant having coups or the appearances of such in the United States.<<
Actually, the point is made in one of the sources that Urkel WAS vetted by the military. They know EXACTLY where he was born and may working under the paradigm that if he goes up against them, he gets nailed, publicly, for who he really is.
No, I’m talking about the hunt for Bin Laden after 9/11 and reports that he was reachable for capture but we were held back somehow from doing so.
Please stop trying to post Ulsterman content. We'll just pull it if we see it.
>>From all indications, Ulsterman is a creation of the blogger Anthony Martin, who had a flameout on FR and is now bloggera non grata on FR.<<
So it is not a matter of whether or not he is accurate, but whether or not he is allowed here?
But the WH said that bib Laden didn't have a gun and he didn't use a human shield. Was he a threat in some other way?
Panetta and others just assumed that bin Laden would be killed, or was it ordered that he was to be killed?
How about if you can take him alive, do it.
Or as null and void said, maybe we did...
Yeah, I finally got to that point. Thanks. I just stuck with the The Post and Email thing.
Should I do a search on anything I link to for his name embedded somewhere in the article?
I should have kept my mouth shut...
The Obamanation had to wait until his Puppeteers and Handlers told him what to do and say! Is the Zero going to wait 16 hours to give the approval to launch a counterattack when there are incoming nuclear armed missiles from Russia, China, Iran or Pook-is-toon? Also, it’s reported that Obozo had been told in August of last year that Osama was living there and that he had deferred any action during at least 5 National Security Meetings where the Commanders and the head of the CIA had pleaded with him to take action before a leak would have caused Osama to disappear, much like all of Zero’s entire previous life and history!!! I can only surmise that Zero took this action knowing he had been forced to submit a false and fraudulent Birth Certificate and that his Poll Numbers were crashing as he acted like a petulant angry pre-teenager in the weeks leading up to this action. Zero is a immature, spoiled Brat that has never done a real days work in his life including his last two years of partying, jetting around in AF ONE, Golfing, and spending 24/7 with his boyfriend and playmate, Reggie Love! Pops! I meant to say Butler!!
If U'man is shooting straight (which I cannot confirm) then the delay wasn't 'weather related', although that is the public spin for said delay. Likewise, if this whole story be true, then the 'coup', such as it was, by Panetta wasn't against Obama personally, but against CoS Jarrett, who really should have stayed out of the decision-making loop to begin with.
Interesting times, if any of this is true, we shall see...
the infowarrior
Had to be that one because it's implied that they were ready to go, then he asked for more time to decide, and it was sixteen hours before he decided, so the men and equipment had to be ready well more than sixteen hours before he decided.
And I've read that the weather problem moved out of the area and didn't really prevent the operation from going earlier.
From my reading of the links b4 they were zotted, it would seem that each “source” was simply the same guy telling the same story on or to a different site.I think the author was exposed back around election day as a fraud, but if this story had any chance of being plausible, I stand by my statement that coups are not to be tolerated, defended or explained away. They are the ultimate violation of the Constitution. See Outer Limits 100 Days of the Dragon.
>>From my reading of the links b4 they were zotted, it would seem that each source was simply the same guy telling the same story on or to a different site.<<
Yep. Essentially we have a single story being shared with other sites who put their own, uh, flavor to it and it appears to be from multiple sources.
Kinda like AP.
obama slept for 16 hours? WOW! impersonating a president must be hard work.
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